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Open Source Twitter Competitor Emerges
via Slashdot by ScuttleMonkey on July 04, 2008
ruphus13 writes "Twitter has had a lot of public woes with Open Source technologies like Ruby on Rails, and a lot of alternatives have sprung up in the micro-blogging world, but no one has managed to dislodge twitter in its usage or appeal. Now, an Open Source alternative by Identi.ca, backed by project Laconica has emerged. From the article, 'It supports OpenID for logins, is completely free...
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AVG Backs Down From Flooding the Internet
via Slashdot by timothy on July 06, 2008
Simon Wright writes "As a website that is featured heavily in many Google Australia search results, Whirlpool (Australia's largest technology forum) has been particularly affected by AVG's LinkScanner. We've seen a traffic increase as much as 12 hits per second from these bots. So we've actively and loudly campaigned against this move by AVG, encouraging all users of AVG 8.0 to...
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Home automation in GNU/Linux - Or how to email your light switch with free software
via UbuntuHQ - by admin on July 05, 2008
Home Automation is anything that your home does for you automatically to make living there more enjoyable or productive. It covers many areas, including remote and timed control of lights and electrical home appliances, distributed media services, and communication. Over the last 10 years, many hardware manufacturers have presented their own proprietary solutions to these problems. Unbeknownst to...
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The Cult of Gary: Backing up to S3
via Planet SysAdmin by (author unknown) on July 05, 2008
I started backing up our servers to S3 a few weeks ago. I had been doing weekly tar based backups to my laptop over SSH. Some of the backups are starting to get big, so it was time to move to something else.My key requirements were to back up to S3 and to use encryption on the backups. I found a lot of apps/scripts/products out there that can do this. I had two “nice to have” requirements as...
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More Groovy power
via Xebia Blog by Lars Vonk on July 06, 2008
After my first real encounter with Groovy I got really excited about it and decided to spend some of my personal training days to get more experience with Groovy. As study material I read the Programming Groovy book. While reading I really wanted to get my hands dirty, so as a study case I decided to solve one of my longest and biggest frustrations as a developer and that is working behind a...
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The Lamest Twitter Joke
via Geek And Poke by Oliver Widder on July 06, 2008
The Twitter whalegets famous (seen through TechCrunch). Download twitterjokes.comicdoc
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Social News: Warum es schwierig ist, im Netz Nachrichten zu empfehlen
via netzwertig.com by Martin Weigert on July 05, 2008
Es gibt viele Möglichkeiten, Freunden und Bekannten interessante Links und Artikel zu empfehlen. Nachteile hat jede. Auch im Jahr 2008 befindet sich das Thema Social News noch ganz am Anfang.Vermutlich kommt den meisten von Euch die folgende Situation bekannt vor: Ihr habt bei einer Onlinezeitung oder auf einem Blog einen Artikel gelesen, der so gut/informativ/interessant war, dass ihr ihn...
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Web Form Design Patterns: Sign-Up Forms
via Smashing Magazine by Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz on July 04, 2008
If you want to maximize the revenue of your service you need to maximize completion rates of your web forms. Unless you have some revolutionary ideas to impress your visitors at first glance, it is not enough to simply enable users to sign up on your site. To make it possible for the service to reach a maximal exposure we, designers, need to provide users with a good user experience. We need to...
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Ingrid Bergman
via Pixdaus: Popular Today Pics by (author unknown) on July 06, 2008
Shared by Kiana Shared by Nazli M: “wooooooow.دخترشم البته ماه می باشه :ي”دقیقا :ی"Ingrid Bergman"
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Social News: Warum es schwierig ist, im Netz Nachrichten zu empfehlen
via netzwertig.com by Martin Weigert on July 06, 2008
Es gibt viele Möglichkeiten, Freunden und Bekannten interessante Links und Artikel zu empfehlen. Nachteile hat jede. Auch im Jahr 2008 befindet sich das Thema Social News noch ganz am Anfang.Vermutlich kommt den meisten von euch die folgende Situation bekannt vor: Ihr habt bei einer Onlinezeitung oder auf einem Blog einen Artikel gelesen, der so gut/informativ/interessant war, dass ihr ihn...
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